ReGenesis: an Alternative Future

ReGenesis: an Alternative Future / by Benjamin Lightfoot

NASA has discovered what it believes to be an Earth-like planet hundreds of light years from our solar system. The agency has also developed a starship capable of light-speed and able to explore other star-systems in our galaxy. NASA has been given approval to launch a mission to the planet Nyvar. Six astronauts, three men, and three women, have been selected to journey to the newly discovered planet. The astronauts, if their one-way mission is successful, will either become the first humans to visit Nyvar or our envoys to an existing civilization on that planet.

The mission is launched and the astronauts begin their journey at light-speed in the most advanced spacecraft ever constructed. The Revelation begins a trek that will take it beyond our solar system, past the stars that make up the constellation Orion, trillions of miles in the direction of the Crab Nebula. With the crew in hibernation, a malfunction in the ship’s master computer causes the Revelation to follow an incorrect course. The ship forges through deep space, not toward the intended planet Nyvar, but on an elliptical path returning it back to Earth – Earth in the thirty-fourth century.

The Revelation astronauts find themselves on a world vastly different from the one they left only a year ago in their lifetimes, but thirteen centuries earlier in Earth time. The new Earth boasts sweeping sociological transformations such as the abolition of war, the near eradication of crime and the virtual elimination of poverty.

In ReGenesis – An Alternative Future, author Benjamin Lightfoot weaves an exciting tale of what this new Earth is like and how six orphans from the twenty-first century adapt to a radically different world – which in spite of many utopian aspects, is not all that it seems to be. The powerful leaders of thirty-fourth century Earth are not sure they can accept the 21st Century Six into their society. The astronauts are not all convinced they wish to remain on this future Earth.

Come aboard the Revelation and experience the future Earth the author has created. Learn the fates of the six astronauts from twenty-first century Earth.

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Facing Kelly Scott’s Crossroads

Crossroads / by Kelly Scott

Luke Matthews’ life changed dramatically after a near fatal car accident. Luke came out of life-threatening brain surgery with some startling new telepathic talents. His new talents attract attention from an agency that studies telepaths.

Unfortunately, all the agency’s ‘guests’ have died. Luke is rescued by another telepathic couple who train him and prepare him for his new life. Most of his new talents are quite convenient.

But when Luke is drawn to the crossroads of another person who is about to become a telepath, Luke finds the laws of the telepathic life very uncomfortable. He is drawn to a teacher, Kassidy Dover, in Laramie, Wyoming. While Luke battles to keep Kassidy out of the agency’s reach, his attraction to her intensifies with each new talent the two discover.

Crossroads is a self-published science fiction book written by Kelly Scott.

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An Out of Body Experience in a Self Published Book

47 / by Frank J. Viscomi

Chris reached the hotel and casually walked through the lobby to the elevator. He noticed that there was a new man behind the desk now. Chris just nodded to him as he pressed the button to go up. The humming vibrations and soft lights of the elevator had a numbing effect. The elevator doors opened. Chris walked out and turned to walk down the hallway to his room.

As he unlocked his door, he thought that the evening in the city was quite different than what he had expected, in fact pleasurable. Then he thought again of the Jamaican and the feeling he had as he walked back to the hotel. While getting ready for bed, Chris thought that perhaps the strange feelings during the evening where just a result of being tired, he finished brushing his teeth, set the alarm, and jumped under the covers. Almost the instance his head hit the pillow, Chris was asleep.

The soft glow of the city lights shone through the window, highlighting the room’s interior, casting shadows over the walls. The mood was reminiscent of a 1940’s style, black and white Mickey Spillane movie. Chris’ darkened dream world was slowly becoming illuminated by glowing white light, diffused throughout the room, and as its intensity grew, he became keenly aware of his surroundings.

Sitting in a chair in the middle of a circular room, Chris scanned the rows of Corinthian columns forming the perimeter of the circle. Through the space between two of the columns appeared an angel, at least that’s how Chris perceived the being. As the being approached, Chris saw that it was a woman dressed in a long flowing white robe, covering her completely. He could see her face, which was pale, but not in a sickly manner, her long platinum hair floated in the air as though a constant breeze was blowing over her. The angelic figure seemed to float several inches above the floor as she moved in closer to Chris.

Now standing directly in front of him, the woman raised her arm and reached out with her hand. Taking her hand, Chris stood up from the chair and ‘floated’ across the floor with the woman. The columnar room dissolved around them and was slowly replaced with a long grey corridor that materialized in front of them. The woman was now behind Chris. She placed her right hand onto his right shoulder, and with her outstretched left arm, pointed towards an amber colored light at the end of the corridor.

With no spoken words, Chris could ‘hear’ the woman’s thoughts in his mind, “There!”. But Chris did not understand. He saw an amber light glowing with a pulsating rhythm at the end of the corridor. In his mind he could hear the woman say, “You”. Then in a moment, the glowing amber light began to fade. The corridor dissolved as the columns in the circular room had. The intensity of the lighted room began to dissipate and Chris’ darkened dream world was once again slowly returning him to a peaceful state of rest…”

Based on an actual Out of Body Experience of author Frank J. Viscomi, 47 is a self-published story of Chris, a recent college graduate, who soon realizes that life in the real world doesn’t match up to all his expectations. As things begin to go down hill, Chris turns to meditation hoping to find peace and the strength to accept what the world had dealt him. What he finds instead is a world of unearthly forces that begin to take over his very being. Dreams no longer represent the peaceful solitude so eagerly awaiting our nightly rest, but become the visions of what the future holds.

During his dream state, Chris is exposed to interlocking images and events which form an elaborate puzzle relating the number ‘47’ and the real world. Chris’ encounters with an unknown presence soon evolve into a predestined fate that is magically orchestrated into a journey to uncover the meaning behind ‘47’ and a mysterious symbol he sees while in the dream state. We have all experienced that state of consciousness that lies between the dream world and the waking world. It is at this level that we find it difficult to tell the difference. Perhaps as we journey through these levels of consciousness and solve their riddle, our minds open the doors to yet another level.

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Ashes to Ashes… Dust to Dust

Ashes to Ashes / by Claude Ledoux

Ashes to Ashes is a self-published science fiction book by Claude Ledoux.

After the murder of his father, Duncan sets out to find his father’s killer, who escaped with two of the last remaining treasures of the lost Demloc Dynasty in which Duncan’s father was the heir-apparent. Aided by a magician and accompanied by an orphaned boy, he tracks the psychopathic killer all over the known world.

When he catches up to the villain, he finds him in fierce battle with another warrior. When Duncan interferes with the melee, the villain escapes after wounding the warrior and seriously injuring Duncan. Duncan and the warrior Raytor are healed by a wizard and Duncan gains the friendship and alliance of the seasoned warrior who has much to gain from finding the same killer and helping Duncan on his quest – reclaiming the Kingdom his grandfather lost forty years before. But before he can realize his dream, he must first understand courage, fortitude, love and the meaning of a recurring vision of fire.

Set in a mystical time when the land was ruled by compassionate Kings and barbaric Tyrants, aided by wizards and giants and wrought with treachery and deceit, is a story of a young man’s will to accomplish his dead father’s destiny.

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Transdimensional Blues

Transdimensional Blues / by Raymond M. Coulombe

Jake Stonewall’s life is in constant danger as he is pulled through parallel works, with little warning, and with almost no control.

He is aided by the teachings of an enigmatic martial arts master. Jake learned how more about fighting from his martial arts instructor than he ever learned in the army. His instructor also trained him in arcane mental arts. Those special talents grew as Jake was pulled from one parallel world to another.

Through many trials and adventures, he learns about the true nature of reality. Jake struggles for control and searches for a meaning and reason for his exile. He discovers unexpected dangers, but also discovers unexpected allies.

Transdimensional Blues is a self-published science fiction book written by Raymond M. Coulombe.

Here’s an excerpt…

Shimmering waves rose in my vision, like heat off a California blacktop. It wasnt heat that caused the waver. The air was not wavering: reality was. Well, not reality, just my place in it. It happened again.

The street morphed. Reality twisted before my eyes. First a flower shop, then a bookstore, a pet store, office space, warehouses? Now back to storefronts but with a difference. The matrix took me far afield. In front of me was Dan and Daves All Night Trauma Stand and Cut Rate Surgery. I hoped this reality was not one of the long-lasting ones.

Im afraid it was. The Trauma Stand did not waver, but I did: nausea, headache. The ground reached up and grabbed me, pulling me face first into the pavement: not a good beginning. Darkness.

Consciousness returned. My mouth felt stuffed with sandpaper, and my was face stiff with dried blood. The cold hard floor sucked the heat from my body. Welcome to a new dimension. Normally transition didnt hit so hard. I would not still be around if it did. The first time I changed realities, the disorientation nearly killed me, but I learned how to survive. The physical shock is bad, but the changes in society are equally disorientating. Every society has its rules, both conscious and unconscious, and woe to one who breaks them. Imagine being in a car crash and waking up in a different country. Thats how it felt.

[from Chapter 1: Jake Stonewall]

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Self Published Sci Fic: Life as a Teenage Sincarian

Andy Quinn was a typical, yet overachieving teenager in 2105 Maine. Raised by her father and growing up with a twin, she played sports, loved the ocean, excelled in her studies, and was eager to go away to college. Her love of sports made her physically strong and her disinterest in her appearance made her more comfortable being with the boys than tending to her hair or clothing.

Just as she was finishing high school, odd events began to occur in Andy’s life. A sixth sense was altering her, even showing her, but Andy didn’t pay it much attention. She was just a kid…

Andy was blissfully unaware. Little hints, little hints. What did Mike mean when he told her “you’re the one?” Why is Mike always around, now watching her, smirking? He’s her dad’s best friend; they even look like brothers. Why is Andy being challenged beyond what any human body should endure? How much pain can her body take? Can anyone help her, can she trust anyone anymore? People who have surrounded her are not who they say they are. For all these years they’ve been spying on her. Why her? What is her power? What is her mission?

She must uncover and follow the clues. She must protect herself and her family. There is no turning back.

Meagan M. Donohue’s Sincarian is a self-published science fiction book that tells the adventures of Andy Quinn; the last Sincarian. She has unique powers but does not know how to control them. She must learn who she can trust and why. This is just the beginning, the story of Andy. Her compatriots are out there waiting to learn, discover, and control their own individual powers. They must find each other and formulate a plan. Continue to read the series of each young warrior as they unite to attempt to outthink, out maneuver, and physically defeat their counterparts, before they themselves are defeated by the one force that will bring them all together: the Destruction.

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A High Flying, Self Published Adventure from Linda B. Munn

Hawk, an Avian from the planet Avia, is human in all appearance. Avians, however, have the ability to fly at will and when stressed go into “the change”, producing feathers all over themselves.

Hawk and his fellow Avians are a part of the crew on the Croman X headed to Nebulla 9000 to help with colonization of that planet.

Hawk fled Avia to escape the matchmaking afoot by his parents and other matrons on his home planet. Little did he know that he would meet an Earthling that would capture his heart and soul.

Rachel Burris and her team of four technicians were aboard the Croman X to establish the communications that would be needed on Nebulla 9000. Along with this group are other species that have banded together to facilitate the colonization of a planet that seemed benign, but turns hostile.

Nebulla 9000 seemed devoid of any life-form and ideal for a colonization outpost. Too soon after the arrival of the Croman X crew and colonials, mysterious mutilations begin to happen. Nebulla 9000 had a life-form after all. Stabilizers are the vicious, shrew-like inhabitants that seem to rule this new planet.

With the help of a secondary life-form, the ghost-like Nebbies, the crew and colonials have to come to terms with each other.

Get into the world of the Avians their adventures on Nebulla 9000 in the self-published book, Hawk by author Linda B. Munn.

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Enjoying the Self Published Adventures of Plunky

Plunky the Space Man / by Tommie B. Davis

If you and your children enjoy reading, then this story along with the future adventures of Plunky will be a wonderful thrill that children and adults can enjoy together.

Plunky the Space Man: Introduction of Plunky, the Space Man’s Life is a self-published book created for ages 6 and up and was designed for children to use their imaginations as it would encourage them to continue to ask appropriate questions.

The pictures are colorful and will hopefully bring smiles to both children and the adults as they share this reading experience with them.

Author Tommie B. Davis hopes that everyone will enjoy this book and the future adventures of Plunky the Space Man.

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Andrea Leaphart Hill Journeys to a Far Away World in Her Self Published Tale

A World Away: Realynn's Journey / by Andrea Leaphart Hill

The world is rapidly changing — and not always for the best. Do you ever want to leave this world and wonder if there is a better place in our galaxy? Would it really be better? How would you get there? Well, run with Realynn through her story of events, and she’ll show you the WAY!

After Realynn’s parents are killed, she goes to live with her aunt Ananine, who is a little weird and mysterious. Aunt Ananine is a naturalist, who dabs into a lot of medicinal concoctions.

One day, aunt Ananine answers a knock at the door which leads to her disappearance. The abductor leaves behind a message that threatens Realynn’s life and the time of its return.

Petrified, Realynn searches the house for clues. She finds none and in her frustration, she falls into a deep sleep. In her dream, she receives clues to help her. Following the instructions in her dream, Realynn’s journey begins.

In her quest to find her aunt and to save herself, she is led to many strange places — worlds away from her own. In the end, she gains possession of several valuable keys, but will they be worth keeping?

A World Away: Realynn’s Journey is an adventure laden self-published science fiction story written by Andrea Leaphart Hill.

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Bobsleds and Jets Mashed Up in Self Published Book

Jettbobs / by Roland L. Chamberlain

In the not too distant future what started out as modified cars acing on ice covered bobsled-like tracks evolved into an international yearly event of jet powered vehicles careening along at lethal speeds.

The Jettbobs was born as was the most dangerous sport of the new century.

Jettbobs Champion Steve Cauldwell, whose life spun out of control with the sport and the boy who befriends him face the running of the next Jettbobs Grand Prix where along the way surprises await them both.

Jettbobs is a self-published science fiction tale written by Roland L. Chamberlain.

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